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FORT SMITH -- A Utah man was sentenced in federal court Monday to more than five years in prison and was ordered to repay nearly $300,000 for the high school band money, intended for a Hawaiian trip, that he gambled away in Las Vegas.

A Pulaski County circuit judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by three western Arkansas school districts against the Arkansas Department of Human Services after the Arkansas Legislature amended a law requiring operators of licensed day care facilities to have liability insurance.

A federal judge in Texarkana on Friday sentenced former Lafayette County Treasurer and Tax Collector Keesha Rose to 24 months in prison and ordered her to pay more than $282,000 restitution for stealing county and federal money while in office.

A U.S. District Court jury has convicted a Rogers man of conspiracy and kidnapping for helping abduct a woman so she wouldn't testify against her ex-boyfriend in a pending criminal case that threatened his National Guard career.